Also new this week is Look Into My Eyes, a doc that transcends smug gotchas and asks the important question: If going to a psychic helps someone find closure, does it matter if what they experience is "real?" ign.com/articles/look-…

The movie is dedicated to Scott Wampler. 😭

I don't like doing festival reaction tweets so I'm not (imagine!), but you can look me up with this @ on Letterboxd if you want to know what I think of TIFF movies.

I hate sentimental movies as a rule, but The Life of Chuck brought my hater ass around. indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

The important thing to remember about Dead Talents Society is that the wild tonal shifts are a feature, not a bug. Horror in-jokes, characters you actually care about, fantastic world-building, comedic scares: This is cinema, baby!

Heretic doesn't believe in anything strong enough to fully deliver on its faith-testing premise, but Hugh Grant is so good and the whole thing's worth it just for the scene where he imitates Jar Jar Binks as proof that God doesn't exist. my review: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

In which I realize that it probably was kind of fucked up and formative to see Happiness when I was 14.

Pretty funny to see “as the husband of a woman…” pulled out to justify both loving and hating Nightbitch. Anyway, I’m a barren hag and I thought it was uneven until the final stretch, which was good: indiewire.com/criticism/movi…

#TheSubstance's white-hot rage escalates throughout its epic 140-minute run time, building to a jaw-droppingly audacious climax. It’s demented and absurd in the best way possible. Read Katie Rife's full film review: avclub.com/the-substance-…

I'm hesitant to use the phrase "female gaze," lest it kick up a shitstorm on here, but Coralie Fargeat is doing interesting things with hers. avclub.com/the-substance-…

In The Shadow Strays, there's a bit where an assassin tries to impale a guy's head on a spike, but she misses and it goes through his cheek. So she kicks him, and his cheek rips off. Timo Tjahjanto forever

At a very tepid #TIFF24, I needed BABYGIRL to deliver. Thank god it did. boxd.it/7iXMij

The Gesuidouz playlist really got me in my “angsty teen punk” feelings